[Python-Dev] Breaking undocumented API

[Raymond Hettinger]

On Nov 10, 2010, at 5:47 AM, Michael Foord wrote:

> 
> So it is obvious that we don't have a clearly stated policy for what defines the public API of standard library modules.
> 
> How about making this explicit (either pep 8 or our developer docs):

I believe the point of Guido's email was that it is a situation dependent judgment call and not readily boiled down to a set of rules for PEP 8.


Raymond